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Carbon fiber (the blanket term for carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer or carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic) is ubiquitous in today's society. We fly in it,…

A prim, lovely English village is presided over by a loud, bossy chatelaine. The May Festival is the town's big day. At a meeting to select this year's…

Violinist Alexandra Soumm's website opens with a photo of her and this text: "Alexandra Soumm - Violinist & Humanitarian."This is no exaggeration. Here is…

Professor of China Studies Jessica Chen Weiss discusses the latest in U.S.-China relations.

A marimbist, a cellist with a boom box and two double bassists walk into a bar.No, not the setup for a joke. Instead, the overview of an offbeat classical…

Each year, we receive entries from all 50 states, thanks in part to encouragement from NPR Member stations across the country. So we asked some stations to tell us about the entries they love.

That old guitar that you strum from time to time — did you know it has a soul?If musical instruments are said to have souls, then there is no instrument…

The world just got a little sadder. The New York Times, Opera News and a variety of print and online screeds are reporting the death of soprano Roberta…

Picture it: George Frideric Händel’s music played like jazz, complete with improv, riffs, sparkling syncopations and blisteringly virtuosic licks.Sound…

Had Notre Dame Cathedral actually burned to the ground in yesterday's devastating fire, we would have lost one of the architectural wonders of the Western…